Louis Spohr in St. Petersburg - 1803
from Louis Spohr's Autobiography, page 47:
As my new friend (M. Leveque) now visited me oftener, I played my new violin concerto to him and expressed my wish, to hear it with orchestra before I sent it to the publisher. Leveque immediately offered to study it with his orchestra, took the parts with him, and invited me to a rehearsal some days later.
[Quoted from the author's diary:]
“I was in great agitation now that I was about to hear my own composition with full orchestra for the first time. The Tutti were well studied, and from this I could calculate how, in every part, the effect I intended would be brought out. The most … more >>
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Louis Spohr, and Frederick Freedman and Longman Roberts & Green London 1865 (ed.), Louis Spohr's Autobiography, volume 1 (1969), p. 47. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1409579573048 accessed: 12 October, 2024
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Louis Spohr's violin concerto
written by Louis Spohr |
performed by Orchestra [unknown], Louis Spohr |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1803 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by tlisboa on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:52:53 +0100
Approved on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:30:48 +0000